Well, okay, but it better include the part where he handcuffs a male model to a wall fixture and brutally abuses him. 

Oh Jesus, I actually remember that cartoon, and how freakish it was. Trust me, it made its way to the states as well.

I was an older brother and yeah, I can’t imagine doing this. The Genesis was definitely mine and not hers, but she was still always invited to play Sonic and other games with me. One summer we just played Sonic 2 every day until we beat it; it was our daily ritual.

I mean, I think part of the concern is that as new formats come along a lot of old stuff gets swept away, or never properly upgraded. To mention those old fuzzy VHS tapes - have you tried playing one of them lately? It isn’t just that they look worse than newer formats we’re accustomed to, but also that they actually…

There also hasn’t really been a notable new format in that time. (I guess Mp4, maybe?) It will be noticeable the next time there’s a really major new format and an upgrade of all that material is impossible on it. There’s also presumably plenty of stuff that was lost that was never issued, or hasn’t been issued since…

I saw some bits of it and really found it unfunny. I appreciated that it tried to focus on some underdiscussed issues (in terms of nuance and tackling an issue that was only just starting to get real public discussion, I was rather impressed with a bit about UBI). But the actual jokes didn’t work. They felt like the…

In this case he’s right!

I’ve seen by far worse sequels but I honestly don’t think any sequel has actually upset me more than Alien 3 (and my viewing of the first four was all Blockbuster rentals close together, so it’s not even like there were years of anticipation that it was letting down). The utter disrespect it showed to the entirety of…

Lost World is overall pretty lousy, but I will say it has some things going for it. Spielberg is still great with setpieces and action scenes, and while some of them in Lost World really don’t work, there are some really fantastic moments here and there, like the scene with the raptors in the grass. It still has some…

They’re already making demo reels. That’s not the point. It’s whether they can actually get roles with or. There’s already only a very limited amount of voiceover roles in general and they’re essentially vanishing in favor of celebrity voices.

He’s not just mad on his own behalf though. New voice actors can’t break into the business anymore because all the roles are going to celebrities who mostly can’t voice act to save their lives. Besides, it IS making the actual films and shows worse. 

Somehow AV Club manages to misquote the Jaws line even though it’s quoted correctly IN THE IMAGE. 

I agree. It mostly serves to kowtow to centrists who insist that we never be critical of Democrats (except for Bernie, who they apply a different standard to for totally not anti-Semitic reasons). Sure, some of us will make that decision once that bridge is crossed but we’re months away from any primary. Now is the…

Maybe SNL shouldn’t have humanized Donald Trump, knowing that he was likely to install anti-choice justices to the Supreme Court, then?

Don’t quote me, but I seem to recall reading that other celebrity cat owners aren’t fans of the owners of Grumpy Cat because they felt they were mistreating her and parading her around in a way that was genuinely unhealthy for the cat. If you watch the way Lil Bub’s owner handles her for instance, he’s careful not to…

Star Wars makes enough money worldwide (if not in certain Asian countries) that it’s not going to just go away. It’s actually never done well in Asia outside of Japan and probably never will. Presumably Disney has factored that into their decisions already, including the original purchase of Lucasfilm.

I had a guy legitimately try to tell me that not only was the Jar Jar as sithlord theory true but that Lucas had confirmed it. I could not convince him that the theory was just a joke, for the life of me. 

Why do you care about how the films do overseas? Unless you’re a Disney executive or stockholder there’s no reason to care about that whatsoever. I see films because I want to see them, not because I’m weirdly invested in how a corporation’s fiscal year goes. 

I had many problems with Obama as a president, but that said, he aggressively pursued a 50 state strategy which was good for him and for the party at large that year. The Clinton team absolutely should have followed that example. Even if she had some of those states in the bag, she was still going to need a Congress (a…

(I know you’re joking but) it really is amazing how lazy people are. The sets would cost them a lot less than paying for Netflix every month.